Living in the UK I had never really read many novels.
Everything changed quite quickly when I moved to Singapore.
My colleagues were constantly reading wuxia (武侠) / xianxia (仙侠小说) novels in Chinese and seeing how excited they were made me really want to read them as well..
So the journey started!
I found an excellent website - http://wuxiaworld.com and started my journey reading Coiling Dragon 盘龙 by the author 我吃西红柿
And the binge hasn't stopped over 2 years later.. I now use translation software (Systranet) to read the raws of lots of novels and have some great respect for the quality of work by the authors. The storytelling of Chinese authors is absolutely brilliant.
Thank you for reading!